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TIL the Mary Poppins word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious breaks down into: super- “above”, cali- “beauty”, fragilistic- “delicate”, expiali- “to atone”, and -docious “educable”, with the roughly meaning, “atoning for educability through delicate beauty.

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